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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>On behalf of Dr. Zhongguo Xiong:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On behalf of the IT/Web committee, I am writing to request your assistance in updating the contents of the “Featured Faculty” column and the featured stories at the bottom of the SPLS homepage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The committee has decided to feature every faculty member in our school. Please provide a short paragraph about yourself and the highlights of your research, teaching, and extension activities in 700 to 720 characters including spaces. You will also need to provide a high quality picture of yourself. The picture can be one of the following formats: png, gif, and jpg, and must be exactly 150 by 150 pixels. Please see the current featured faculty items for examples. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stories featured on the SPLS homepage may include recent awards, departmental sponsored events, recently awarded grants, and recently publications. The committee will prioritize the rotation of the new stories and change them at least monthly. If you are interested in submitting a story for the committee to consider, please send any committee members your write-up of the story along with a high quality image relevant to the story. There is no restriction on the length of the story, but please make sure that the first paragraph (about 350 characters including spaces) of your article contains the essence of your story. You may expand and elaborate the story in subsequent paragraphs. For the image to be properly displayed, it must be between 440x220 and 880x440 pixels in size in any of the png, gif, and jpg formats. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Xiong<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On behalf of the IT/Web committee (Bill, Bryant, Eric, Gabe, Mario, Ravi, and Xiong)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>===========================================================<br></span><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Vladimir Script"'>Zhongguo Xiong</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <br>School of Plant Sciences BIO5 Institute<br>Division of Plant Pathology Email: <span style='color:blue'><a href="zxiong@email.arizona.edu">zxiong@email.arizona.edu</a></span> <br> &Microbiology Phone: (520)-621-9869<br>Forbes 303, P.O. box 210036 Fax: (520)-621-7186<br>University of Arizona Email: <span style='color:blue'><a href="zxiong@ag.arizona.edu">zxiong@ag.arizona.edu</a></span><br>Tucson, AZ 85721-0036 <span style='color:blue'><a href="http://ag.arizona.edu/~zxiong">http://ag.arizona.edu/~zxiong</a></span><br>===========================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>